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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 18.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Dimmesdale exclaims, "O Thou to whom I dare not life mine eyes," whom is he addressing?
(a) Chillingworth.
(b) Wilson.
(c) Hester.
(d) God.

2. Where was Hester's "happy infancy and stainless maidenhood?"
(a) Amsterdam.
(b) Bustling London.
(c) Rural England.
(d) Salem.

3. The title of Chapter 5 refers to what?
(a) Hester's work.
(b) Hester's guilt.
(c) Hester's past.
(d) Hester's love life.

4. Who, according to the narrator, is at the "head of the social system" in Puritan times?
(a) Clergy.
(b) Governors.
(c) Doctors.
(d) Witches.

5. Which character seeks to make him or herself "the one trusted friend, to whom should be confided all the fear"?
(a) Wilson.
(b) Hibbins.
(c) Dimmesdale.
(d) Chillingworth.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Hester fling next to the brook?

2. Where are Dimmesdale's parents?

3. While his health is failing, Dimmesdale has achieved what in his profession?

4. What, at the end of Chapter 11, is the "only truth" for Dimmesdale?

5. Who, in Chapter 5, is referred to as "the figure, the body, the reality of sin?"

(see the answer key)

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